The Supreme Commander-in-Chief emphasized that several problems must be solved for a successful implementation of military tasks: insufficient provision of modern radar complexes and laser rangefinders, night vision devices, lack of software and hardware means for automation of fire control based on tablets and PDAs, lack of unmanned reconnaissance complexes.

Back in September 1961, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara had established a secret National Reconnaissance Program (NRP) that funded all United States overflight technical collection assets, and a clandestine National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in the Pentagon to manage and direct the effort.

These challenges to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and satellite reconnaissance may inevitably leave the ground combat commander and his intelligence staff blind in the first months or even years of our next military action in the Pacific.

What we now are doing is we're doing a lot of work to try to figure out how to use the pilot longer in that situation or to do away with the pilot when we want the observance or the reconnaissance to go longer than we had expected.

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